Proverbs starting with "E"

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• E1 The EAGLE does not catch flies
• E2 An EAGLE does not hatch a dove
• E3 Only the EAGLE can gaze at the sun
• E4 You cannot fly like an EAGLE with the wings of a wren
• E5 An EAGLE's old age
• E6 To have an EAGLE's eye
• E7 EAGLES fly alone
• E8 Full EARS of corn hang lowest
• E9 Everything has an EAR and a pitcher has two
• E10 He bites the EAR yet seems to cry for fear
• E11 He cannot hear on that EAR (side)
• E12 In at one EAR and out at the other
• E13 To turn (give) a deaf EAR
• E14 When your EAR tingles (burns) people are talking about you
• E15 He dares not for his EARS
• E16 He may go shake his EARS
• E17 It is better to play with the EARS than the tongue
• E18 Lend me your EARS awhile
• E19 My EARS are my own
• E20 To be all EARS
• E21 To carry one by the EARS like a pot (pitcher)
• E22 To hang one's EARS
• E23 To set (fall) together by the EARS
• E24 To sleep securely on both EARS (on either EAR)
• E25 Who has EARS let him hear
• E26 Wide EARS and a short tongue
• E27 EARLY up and never the nearer
• E28 EARTH is the best shelter, truth the best buckler
• E29 The EARTH makes not the gold the worse
• E30 EARTH must go to earth (Dust to dust)
• E31 The EARTH produces all things and receives all again
• E32 The EARTH that yields food yields also poison
• E33 Like EARTH like pitcher
• E34 Of the EARTH must the dike be bigged
• E35 EASE is the sauce of labor
• E36 He is at EASE who has enough
• E37 He that is angry is not at EASE
• E38 He that is at EASE seeks dainties
• E39 If you would be at EASE all the world is not
• E40 Think of EASE but work on
• E41 To complain of EASE
• E42 You take your EASE in your inn
• E43 He that never EASES himself faints
• E44 EAST and west (Extremes) become the same
• E45 The longer EAST the shorter west
• E46 At EASTER the wind is at Chester
• E47 EASTER (Christmas) so wished for long, passes away in one day
• E48 When EASTER DAY sits in Lady Day's¹ lap England must beware of a clap
• E49 EAT and welcome, fast and heartily welcome
• E50 EAT to live, not live to eat
• E51 You EAT and eat but you do not drink to fill you
• E52 He that EATS while¹ he brusts² (lasts) will be the worse while he die
• E53 Great EATERS (Gluttons) dig their graves with their teeth
• E54 EATING and drinking take away one's stomach
• E55 Often and little EATING makes a man fat
• E56 He that is at a low EBB at Newgate¹ may soon be afloat at Tyburn
• E56a As black as EBONY
• E57 He is upon the EDGE of his grave
• E58 Good EDUCATION is (The best bred have) the best portion
• E59 As nimble as an EEL in a sandbag
• E60 As slippery as an EEL
• E61 He holds a wet EEL by the tail
• E62 Hold fast an EEL with a fig leaf
• E63 You cannot hide an EEL in a sack
• E64 The EFFECT speaks, the tongue needs not
• E65 As an EGG without salt
• E66 As like as one EGG is to another
• E67 Better is an EGG in peace than an ox in war
• E68 An EGG and to bed
• E69 An EGG is worth an ox to the poor
• E70 An EGG today is better than a hen tomorrow
• E71 An EGG will be in three bellies in twenty-four hours
• E72 Give him the other half EGG and burst him
• E73 He that will steal an EGG will steal an ox
• E74 He will dress an EGG and give the offal to the poor
• E75 I will warrant you for an EGG at Easter
• E76 It is very hard to shave an EGG
• E77 Neither good EGG nor bird
• E78 One EGG is none, two somewhat, three enough, four be too much, five give a deadly blow
• E79 Out of the EGG a chicken was expected but behold a cockatrice
• E80 There be many that will have both the EGG and the hen
• E81 To come of the same EGG (nest)
• E82 Who means to have the EGG must endure the cackling of the hen
• E83 As dear as two EGGS a penny
• E84 As sure as EGGS be eggs
• E85 From the EGGS to the apples
• E86 I have EGGS on the spit
• E87 I have other EGGS to fry
• E88 She that will not venture her EGGS shall never have chickens
• E89 To put all your EGGS in one basket
• E90 To take EGGS for money
• E91 To walk on EGGS
• E92 You come with your five EGGS a penny and four of them be rotten
• E93 Your EGGS have two yolks (five chickens)
• E94 Ill EGGING makes ill begging
• E95 Not worth an EGGSHELL (egg)
• E96 EILD¹ would have honor (Age is honorable)
• E97 If it be not true here is my ELBOW
• E98 My ELBOW itches, I must change my bedfellow
• E99 She has broken her ELBOW at the church door
• E100 To rub (scratch) the ELBOW
• E101 To shake one's ELBOW
• E102 To be out at ELBOWS
• E103 It smells of ELBOW GREASE
• E104 Now he has ELBOWROOM enough to turn him in
• E105 ELDEN HoLE¹ needs filling
• E106 When ELDER is white, brew and bake a peck; when elder is black, brew and bake a sack
• E107 He is out of his ELEMENT
• E108 To be in one's ELEMENT
• E109 In a hundred ELLS of contention there is not an inch of love
• E110 The EMPEROR of Germany is the king of kings, the King of Spain king of men, the King of France king of asses, the King of England king of devils
• E110a Half EMPTY is half full
• E111 He that goes far has many ENCOUNTERS
• E112 The END justifies the means
• E113 The END of fishing is not angling but catching
• E114 Better come at the latter END of a feast than the beginning of a fray
• E115 Better never to begin than never to make an END
• E116 The END crowns (tries) all
• E117 The END makes all equal
• E118 The END of our good begins our evil
• E119 The END of passion is the beginning of repentance
• E120 Everything has an END
• E121 Everything has an END and a pudding¹ has two
• E122 He knows no END of his good (goods)
• E123 He that never begins shall never make an END
• E124 In the END things will mend
• E125 Remember (Mark) the END
• E126 There is an END of an old song (story)
• E127 They know no END of their good nor beginning of any goodness
• E128 Think on the END before you begin
• E129 You will make an END of your whistle though the cart overthrow
• E130 He cares not which END goes forward
• E131 He goes in at the wide END of the horn and is squeezed out at the small end
• E132 He has (holds) the better (worse) END of the staff
• E133 To be at the END of one's rope
• E134 You will dance at the END of a rope without teaching
• E135 To make both ENDS meet
• E136 He that ENDURES (Who suffers) is not overcome (overcomes)
• E137 An ENEMY (Adversity) makes a man to know himself whereas a friend (prosperity) flattens a man and deceives him
• E138 He that dallies with his ENEMY dies by his own hand (by his hand)
• E139 It is better to leave to an ENEMY at one's death than to beg of a friend in one's life
• E140 It is good to see an ENEMY before we feel him
• E141 One ENEMY is too much
• E142 There is no little ENEMY
• E143 Better go by your ENEMY's grave than his gate
• E144 An ENEMY's mouth seldom says well
• E145 He that has no ENEMIES has no friends
• E146 ENGLAND is a good country but ill people
• E147 ENGLAND is the paradise of women, the hell of horses, and the purgatory of servants
• E148 ENGLAND is the ringing island
• E149 ENGLAND were but a fling save for the crooked stick and the grey goose wing
• E150 He that will ENGLAND win must with Ireland first begin
• E151 Little ENGLAND beyond Wales
• E152 To speak plain ENGLISH
• E153 The ENGLISH are the Frenchmen's apes
• E154 An ENGLISHMAN Italianate is a devil incarnate
• E155 One ENGLISHMAN can beat three Frenchmen
• E156 You are a right ENGLISHMAN, you cannot tell when a thing is well (when you are well)
• E157 Eat ENOUGH and it will make you wise
• E158 ENOUGH is as good as a feast
• E159 ENOUGH is enough
• E160 He grants ENOUGH that says nothing
• E161 He grants ENOUGH that says nothing
• E162 He has ENOUGH that is pleased (content)
• E163 He is wise (no fool) that knows when he has ENOUGH (is well enough)
• E164 He knows ENOUGH that knows nothing if so be he know how to hold his peace
• E165 He that has not ENOUGH has nothing
• E166 He will have ENOUGH one day when his mouth is full of molds
• E167 Of ENOUGH men leave
• E168 There was never ENOUGH where nothing left (nought leaves)
• E169 Who serves well asks ENOUGH
• E170 An examined ENTERPRISE goes on boldly
• E171 ENVY can abide no excellency
• E171a ENVY is the companion of honor
• E172 ENVY never dies
• E173 ENVY never enriched any man
• E174 ENVY shoots at others and wounds herself
• E175 ENVY (Calumny) shoots at the fairest mark (flowers, virtue)
• E176 No ENVY like a monk's
• E177 Better be ENVIED than pitied
• E178 Marry your EQUAL
• E179 To ERR is human, to repent is divine, to persevere is diabolical
• E180 A sleeveless (bootless) ERRAND
• E181 He is not like to ESCAPE scot-free
• E182 It is but my ESSAY, I played not today
• E183 Better be half-hanged than lose one's ESTATE
• E184 ESTATE in two parishes is bread in two wallets
• E185 He has a good ESTATE but that the right owner keeps it from him
• E186 To wash an ETHIOP (blackamoor, Moor) white
• E187 EVEN brings all men home
• E188 Good EVEN, good Robin Hood
• E189 The nearer the EVEN the more beggars
• E190 The EVENING crowns (praises) the day
• E191 An EVENING red and morning gray Is the sign of a fair day
• E192 To be wise after the EVENT
• E193 EVERYTHING new is fine
• E193a EVERYTHING would live
• E194 He that is EVERYWHERE is nowhere
• E195 Bear with EVIL (ill) and expect good
• E196 Do EVIL and evil will come of it
• E197 Drawing EVIL about one as the northeast wind does clouds
• E198 He sucked EVIL from the dug
• E199 He that EVIL does never good weens
• E200 He that helps the EVIL hurts the good
• E201 In EVIL there is odds
• E202 It is good to prevent an EVIL in the beginning
• E203 Never do EVIL (ill) that good may come of it
• E204 To render EVIL for good
• E205 Welcome, EVIL (mischief), if thou comest alone
• E206 EVILS have their comfort, good none can support with a moderate and contented heart
• E207 Of two EVILS (ills) choose the least
• E208 Some EVILS are cured by contempt
• E209 The gentle EWE (sheep) is sucked by many lambs (every lamb)
• E210 She stamps like a EWE upon yeaning¹
• E211 Good EXAMPLE makes all
• E212 He has made an EXAMPLE
• E213 EXAMPLES teach more than precepts
• E213a The EXCEPTION proves the rule
• E214 A bad EXCUSE (shift) is better than none at all
• E215 To EXCUSE is to accuse
• E216 He will be his own EXECUTOR
• E217 One ought to make the EXPENSE according to the income (means)
• E218 EXPERIENCE is sometimes dangerous
• E219 EXPERIENCE is the father of wisdom and memory the mother
• E220 EXPERIENCE is the mistress of fools
• E221 EXPERIENCE is the mother of wisdom (knowledge)
• E222 No EXTREME will hold long
• E223 Run not from one EXTREME to another
• E224 Every EXTREMITY (extreme) is a vice (fault)
• E225 Always have an EYE to the door
• E226 Better EYE out than always ache
• E227 Better to have one EYE than be blind altogether
• E228 Blessed is the EYE that is between Severn and Wye
• E229 The EYE is a shrew
• E230 The EYE is the pearl of the face
• E231 The EYE is the window of the heart (mind)
• E231a The EYE sees not itself but by reflection
• E232 The EYE that sees all things else sees not itself
• E233 The EYE will be where the love is
• E234 The EYE will have his part
• E235 Have an EYE (Look) to the main chance
• E236 He has an EYE behind
• E237 He has an EYE in his neck
• E238 He that has but one EYE must be afraid to (must take heed how he) lose it
• E239 He that has but one EYE sees the better for it
• E240 He that has one EYE is a king among the blind
• E241 He that winks with the one EYE and looks with the other, I will not trust him though he were my brother
• E242 Jest (Bourd¹) not with the EYE or with religion (honor)
• E243 One EYE of the master's sees more than ten of the servants'
• E244 Please the EYE but vex the heart (pick the purse)
• E245 A proud EYE, an open purse, and a light wife bring mischief to the first, misery to the second, and horns to the third
• E246 The sore EYE infects the sound
• E247 That the EYE sees not, the heart rues not
• E248 To cry (look up) with one EYE and laugh (down) with the other
• E249 To have by the EYE
• E250 To sleep with an EYE open
• E251 When the EYE sees what it never saw the heart will think what it never thought
• E252 You cannot say black is his EYE
• E253 You would have your EYE full
• E254 As many EYES as Argus
• E255 EYES as red as a ferret's
• E256 The EYES have one language everywhere
• E257 He has his EYES at his belt, his stomach in his purse, his foot in his hand
• E258 He sleeps out his EYE and profit
• E259 He that has EYES in his head will look about him
• E260 He that plays more than he sees forfeits his EYES to the king
• E261 His EYES are bigger than his belly
• E262 It is long¹ of your EYE, the crows might have helped it when you were young
• E263 My EYE draw straws
• E264 Neither EYES on letters nor hands in coffers (purses)
• E265 To drink until one's EYE stare like two blazing stars
• E266 To have his EYES about him
• E267 To whirl the EYES too much shows a kite's brain
• E268 Two (Four) EYES can see more (are better) than one (two)
• E269 Who has none to still him may weep out his EYES
• E270 Who means to be lean must keep his EYES open and his mouth shut
• E271 Your EYES are not matches
• E272 The EYESERVANT is never good for his master
• E273 To be an EYESORE
• E274 One EYEWITNESS is better than ten earwitnesses